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...link peripheral devices, such as PDAs and printers, to other computerized devices. Chips up to 30 ft. apart built on the new standard can exchange audio and data at a rate of 500 to 1,000 kilobytes every second--more than 10 times as fast as your dial-up modem...
...transmits data 10 times that distance and at much more than 100 times the rate of a dial-up modem, making it an ideal technology for linking computers to one another and to the Net in a wireless local-area network, or WLAN. It also has the advantage of being unequivocally here and relatively easy to use. All you need is a specialized PC card (for as low as $90) that slips into a slot in your computer, and an access point or base station (available for less than $300) capable of linking several computers. The downside? Higher power means...
...name, e-mail address and other information that can be captured and stored by sites you visit. Your Internet Protocol address can also give you away. Every computer on the Internet is assigned an IP address, the online equivalent of a street address, that allows it to receive data. Dial-up connections usually assign you a new IP address every time you connect. But if you use a fixed connection (like DSL or cable), you may have a permanent IP address that any website you visit can capture and, by comparing it against a database, connect to you by name...
Hackers can get into your computer and look through everything on it if your defenses are down. Computers hooked up to the Internet through cable or DSL connections, which are always on, rather than dial-up services, are particularly vulnerable. A home firewall is the best protection against these sneak attacks...
...mails for about 10?, roughly the cost of an envelope and pencil. The service has some 60,000 users and centers can be found in post offices, fast food outlets and stand-alone stores. In South Africa, the company's initial push will ignore the highly competitive home dial-up market there and concentrate on offering e-touch services to the growing, well-educated but computerless middle class...